Melting Ice May Be Moving More Algae in the Arctic (1 of 15) (IMAGE)

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Melting Ice May Be Moving More Algae in the Arctic (1 of 15)

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This shows a melt pond on Arctic sea ice. The photo was taken during the expedition of research vessel Polarstern into the central Arctic in August 2012. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 15, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Antje Boetius at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, and colleagues was titled, “Export of Algal Biomass from the Melting Arctic Sea Ice.”

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[Image courtesy of Stefan Hendricks, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research]

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